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...whole new world. Vietnam's younger generation has escaped from under the very eyes of the government, which didn't even see them going. The party's authority no longer crosses the generation gap, and a huge empty space has opened up in society for youngsters to prosper--or self-destruct. A 15-min. cell-phone call in Saigon costs the same as a single hit of heroin in one of the city's public parks...
...banter among Miller and colleagues Al Michaels and Dan Fouts was congenial, not to mention interactive. With Fouts, Miller was downright deferential, prefacing a query about a thing called a "two-gap" defense with the apology, "You know, Danny, I hate to do the Socratic method with you and ask you all these questions." After Miller deemed Canton the "Tigris and Euphrates of football history," Michaels elaborated, "This could be Three Rivers Stadium--the Tigris, the Euphrates and the Cuyahoga," sailing Miller's Mesopotamia one-liner to the New World. When Miller cooed he was having "so much fun!" Michaels...
...John takes office as firsthand memories of John Kennedy fade," Kirk said. "We want to be sure that the foundation isn't just nostalgic. [Shattuck will] bridge the gap...
Demonstrating with his wife and nine-year old son was Tom Hirschl, a professor of sociology at Cornell University. His was the rally's common theme: America's prosperity was driving a dangerously wide economic gap between the rich and the poor...
Freedom is getting harder to find. So is waterfront property. Sensing a gap in the market, entrepreneurs are now selling the concept of nations-at-sea. In Honduras, an American engineer is about to start building a huge steel float called Freedom Ship, intended as a home for 50,000 people who will make their own laws and form a country unto themselves. In Britain's North Sea, an old gunnery fort called the Principality of Sealand is attracting investors who hope to make it a digital utopia, storing people's electronic secrets free from any government interference...